From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Furniss Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:48:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] SEPARATING VOIP AND SURFING Message-Id: <41A5B873.40306@dsl.pipex.com> List-Id: References: <20041109175203.11372.qmail@web41524.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041109175203.11372.qmail@web41524.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Ricardo Soria wrote: > Well, as I promised, here I am again :-) > > I have not got ESFQ yet, but what I think really > helped was shorting bandwidth capacity to its 88%. > But here I have a new problem again: there are > certain moments when I am really running out of > bandwidth. The scenario now is as follows: > > I am using my linux box as a router; forwarding > packages from on subnet to another. But, since I have > only one interface (eth0) for this purpose, both > incoming and outgoing traffic passes for this > interface. So, I though it was correct to duplicate > bandwidth capacity (512kbit * 88% = 450kbit * 2 > 900kbit), considering that I have 512kbit for uplink > and 512 for downlink. So, I am now considering a > rate/ceil of 900kbit for eth0 on my script. > Everything appeared to be OK, But, since I did this > change, there are certain moments that I run out of > downlink bandwidth, so, I think the script is trying > to take more thank the total 512 of downlink I have. > > So, my question would be, how to 'divide' or > 'recognize' incoming and outgoing traffic, and to > treat it as different channels?? I was thinking about > using a IMQ device for incoming traffic, but this > apperas to be a 'little bit' more complicated that > what I expected. So, may it be a way to do this > without installing IMQ ?? Yes you will need IMQ. I assume you can mark traffic from/to the ciscos. The detail depends on your exact setup - NAT, link speeds and type of link from ciscos etc. Do you just wan't to shape traffic forwarded from internet to remote subnet? Andy. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/